WASHINGTON – The Board of Directors of the Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) has awarded $42,000 in grants for ten investigative projects. The grants provide the resources necessary to travel to interview sources and research documentary evidence, and for other out-of-pocket expenses. FIJ’s grant-making program is made possible by support from The Gannett Foundation, The Herb Block Foundation, the Park ...
The nation’s premier association of investigative journalists, Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), has named two Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) grantees as finalists for the 2013 IRE Awards. “The Cash Machine,” published by Philadelphia City Paper and reported by FIJ grantee Isaiah Thompson, was honored as a finalist in the Multiplatform category. The investigation revealed that the Philadelphia District Attorney’s ...
The Future Journalism Project, in an interview with Executive Director Sandy Bergo, reports on how the Fund for Investigative Journalism began, and how it continues to make grants to support investigative reporters. Applications for the current round of grants are due today, March 11. Click here to listen to the 10 minute interview. ...
Washington – The Fund for Investigative Journalism is pleased to announce the continuing generous support from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, based in Oklahoma City. The Foundation has given a $100,000 grant to support a program of assistance to investigative reporters who are pursuing stories in the public interest, but need funding to cover the expenses of reporting. The ...
Washington – The Fund for Investigative Journalism is pleased to announce The Herb Block Foundation has awarded $10,000 to support the Fund’s grant-making program for independent investigative reporters. The grant underwrites a program that pays the reporting expenses of reporters who have the ideas, sources, and know-how to produce groundbreaking investigative journalism, but lack the resources to complete their projects. ...
WASHINGTON — A REMINDER: The Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) is seeking grant proposals for independent investigative projects from journalists who need support for travel and other reporting expenses. The deadline for proposals is 5 p.m. EDT, Monday, March 11. FIJ is interested in proposals for stories that break new ground and expose wrongdoing. Projects relating to government accountability, economic ...
WASHINGTON – The Board of Directors of the Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) has awarded $67,000 in grants for eighteen investigative projects. The grants provide the resources necessary to travel in the US and abroad to interview sources and research documentary evidence, and for other out-of-pocket expenses. FIJ’s grant-making program is made possible by support from the Herb Block Foundation, ...
WASHINGTON — The Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) seeks grant proposals for independent investigative projects from journalists who need support for travel and other reporting expenses. The deadline for proposals is 5 p.m. EDT, Monday, March 11. FIJ is interested in proposals for stories that break new ground and expose wrongdoing. Projects relating to government accountability, economic inequities, and environmental ...
Journalist and author Trevor Aaronson appeared on CBS This Morning to describe his investigation of the FBI war on terrorism, which found that many of the agency’s stings were designed with the means, methods, and planning details supplied by the government, not the alleged terrorists. “Few Americans,” Aaronson says, “realize that since 9/11 the FBI has been responsible for hatching and financing more terrorist plots in the United States than any ...
(Washington) The Fund for Investigative Journalism is proud to announce that Idris Akinbajo, whose investigation of mismanagment of Nigerian government programs to fight poverty and meet basic standard-of-living goals, called “Millennium Development Goals,” was supported by the Fund, has been honored as “Nigerian Investigative Journalist of the Year 2012.” The announcement, made in Abeokuta, Nigeria, said this about Akinbajo: “The judges said he brought ...